🚀 Internship
Octopus Imaging Facility Operations and Studies of DNA Damage and the mTOR Signalling Pathway Industrial Placement
UK Research and Innovation
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18d ago
🚀 Placement Program
Oxford
🤑 £21.6K
⌛ 26d left
AI generated summary
- The candidate must be currently enrolled on an undergraduate degree course, have the right to live and work in the UK, possess scientific qualifications, laboratory experience, and good communication skills. They should also have knowledge of biochemical and chemical spectroscopy, be able to perform literature searches, and have an interest in computing, optics, or electronics.
- The candidate's day-to-day responsibilities include operating and maintaining confocal microscope systems, developing imaging techniques, combining different techniques to gather comprehensive information, and assisting in the development of entangled photon imaging.
Description
- This placement will be part of a team, assisting researchers from universities and industry and will be encouraged to gain hands-on experience of using laser systems and diagnostic equipment, cell and molecular biology.
- During the year, the successful student will be encouraged to carry out projects to develop and extend the capabilities of OCTOPUS. In particular, the work will be directed towards the integration new microscopic techniques to a range of end station. This will be applied to novel biological questions such as how cells deploy proteins for DNA damage and repair and via the mTOR pathway.
Requirements
- Essential:
- Currently enrolled on an undergraduate degree course
- Are required or have requested to take an industrial placement year
- Able to commence employment in summer 2024
- Have the right to live and work in the UK for the duration of the placement
- 3 A’Levels (or equivalent)- scientific, minimum 2 years higher education (pre-degree)
- Laboratory experience
- Working with biochemical and/or chemical spectroscopy and /or instrumentation
- Ability to perform literature search to assess related work related to activities within the group
- Good level of written communication
- Good communication skills
- Desirable:
- Laboratory experience working with biochemical and/or chemical spectroscopy and /or instrumentation
- Ability to discuss work related to activities within the group
- An interest in computing, optics or electronics
Education requirements
Currently Studying
Undergraduate
Area of Responsibilities
Research & Development
Science
Responsibilities
- Working with the two confocal microscope systems (multiphoton and multicolour) to provide a common user interface, allowing the easy exchange of samples between microscopes
- Developing a time resolved anisotropy imaging technique
- Combining confocal and single molecule techniques to allow the collection of complementary information on intracellular location, molecular interactions and conformation
- Assisting with developing entangled photon imaging
Details
Work type
Full time
Work mode
office
Application deadline
Oct 29, 2023
Location
Oxford
Salary
21600 GBP